The earthy smell that arises when rain falls is known as petrichor. Two Australian scientists coined the term in 1964.

Crops don't generally thrive in desert-like ground, but 1000 years ago farmers in Israel utilised refuse such as ash and ...

Scientists at Brazil's National Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) have discovered a biocatalyst called ...

A University of Nebraska-Lincoln research team has identified new microscopic players in the global carbon cycle, a discovery ...

Soil and water tests confirm workers in Ventura County raspberry fields were infected by the rare disease leptospirosis.

Bacteria that caused 19 people who work in raspberry and blackberry hoop houses to fall ill last year from a rare bacterial ...

A Nebraska research team recently published a study in Communications Earth and Environment that is one of the first to show ...

Results of a preliminary investigation of an outbreak of a rare bacterial disease called leptospirosis among Ventura County ...

Encourages microbiological activity for long-term benefits.

From discovering plastic-eating bacteria to finding a new catalytic process in soils, the Aristilde Research Group had a busy ...

"Conducting research through the SEA-PHAGES program was the first time in my academic career where I felt what I learned in ...